jaaake
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- Comment on fine dining 1 day ago:
I assume you’re talking about the Michelin Guide for restaurants that was started by the tyre company. If that’s true, are you saying that Trip Advisor is Michelin in this metaphor? If not, what are you saying?
- Comment on 3 days ago:
10 reviews means the developer has some combination of the following:
- friends/family/classmates
- developers on the actual game
- multiple Steam accounts with the same owner
10 is essentially 0 and cannot be extrapolated into sales.
I agree that if game development is a hobby and not a career, this isn’t a problem for those developers.
I also submit that if you are attempting to make money from your efforts and don’t yet have a following, and can’t afford a marketing budget, and have actually made something unique, interesting, or otherwise worthwhile, it is more difficult to stand out in a market whose signal to noise ratio is continuously and exponentially growing noisier.
- Comment on Greed is Destroying the World - Drew Gooden 1 week ago:
Yes, this is a valid choice. Live amongst your family and friends and everything you cherish, or become a survivalist and abandon all human connection.
- Comment on Greed is Destroying the World - Drew Gooden 1 week ago:
Living under capitalism forces you to adapt or perish. I hate money. I hate having to spend time thinking about investments and retirement and savings and down payments and credit scores. Cost of living in my city is insane and I’m terrified that if my income doesn’t increase every year, I won’t be able to keep up with escalating rent and bills. In order to keep my life as it is, I am forced to think like a capitalist.
When everything around me is becoming more expensive, I must also increase my personal profits.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Indie has always been a way to define a category for creators without access to the same amount of money that publishers had historically provided. Now publishers are both no longer needed to release a game and are very rarely taking chances on original games from first time developers.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
We’ve gotta figure out some rules for what “indie” means. E33 is a great game, but that budget is estimated to be least $20 million. How many small teams are not being honored because a spot is being taken up by a game that has the same budget as a small AAA project?
- Comment on todo list 1 month ago:
Is this a reference to Devo’s favorite Devo song? youtu.be/SMhwddNQSWQ
- Comment on Here we go again... 1 month ago:
I guess I’m also still confused by the hate for Lower Decks. That was my favorite Star Trek show since TNG.
- Comment on Here we go again... 1 month ago:
Do we know enough about Starfleet Academy to hate it? I like the genre of show it seems to be and love the idea of such a thing in the Star Trek universe. Why are all the teenage melodrama shows always in a magical/vampire setting? Why not SciFi? Clearly my perspective isn’t the majority of the current Stat Trek audience, but why not broaden that audience and welcome new fans to the tent?
- Comment on 2 months ago:
How long is “a while?” I added this to a game but never tested it beyond a few minutes. The player can toggle it on or off, it is intended to stay on until toggled off as I did not add a timer to it.
Also, if there is a restriction at the firmware level, I suspect the reasoning would be as more of a safety measure to prevent excessive motor wear or battery drain.
- Comment on Travel back to the days of cable TV with Blippo+, a time-hopping FMV game about... I'm not entirely sure, actually 2 months ago:
It’s not the team that made Thank Goodness You’re Here. It’s the same publisher that also published Thank Goodness You’re Here. That’s the equivalent of two different streaming shows that are both exclusive to the same service.
- Comment on Travel back to the days of cable TV with Blippo+, a time-hopping FMV game about... I'm not entirely sure, actually 2 months ago:
It’s not. There’s no gameplay here. It’s just streaming weird content.
- Comment on Decided to dig a big hole 2 months ago:
Look at this guy, knowing a week before he needs a hole.
- Comment on Decided to dig a big hole 2 months ago:
That ground looks so satisfying to dig in. Like it would actually yield to a shovel. I’ve spent my entire life in Southern California and our ground is hard, dry, and filled with rocks.
- Comment on Women when they finally get a man 3 months ago:
I had the same reaction and had to dig deeper.
Turns out this is a rodeo event called Swine/Hog/Pig “Showmanship.” The competitors are making eye contact with a judge, waiting for signals and to know when they’re paying attention to their animal so they’re can rotate them. They’re tapping the pigs both to steer them (always keeping the pigs between themselves and the judge), and to keep the pigs head pointed upwards. They’re trying to show their control over the animal as well as give the judge views of all sides of them, so different aspects can be assessed.
- Comment on hehe 👉👈 4 months ago:
I grew up in the 80s in a Southern California suburb. All the neighborhood kids used the transformer box as a meeting place. My first kiss was absolutely at one that looked really similar to this. I haven’t thought about Becky C. in decades.
Another transformer box story:
Before helicopter parenting was standard, folks used to let their kids wander around the neighborhood pretty much as soon as they could talk. All the kids watched each other. 12 year olds hanging out with 4 year olds. When I was part of the older kids group, we had convinced the younger kids (the ones that couldn’t yet read) that the transformer box was actually a trap that housed an electrical monster, thanks to this sticker:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Ouch
I’m pretty sure the recent release of Ghostbusters had influenced this story and the acceptance of it.
- Comment on It's not just kind, it's kinder 4 months ago:
The German words on the sign in the background support your observation
- Comment on You know You want to 5 months ago:
reddit.com/…/ooer_missus_spotted_in_shropshire_by… This Reddit post from 2018 appears to be the same sign from a different angle
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
- Comment on This was the original control for cable TV. And if you bribed the install guy with cash he would set it to give you premium channels you didn't pay for 6 months ago:
The one in my yard was inside a green plastic dome with a lock connecting the dome to a collar around the base… only the entire thing was connected to the ground with a thin wooden stake. We just lifted the entire covering out of the ground, still locked. Unscrew the filter, free HBO!
- Comment on What would this list look like for your generation? 7 months ago:
Saying it, or howling it?
- Comment on Thought provoking tee shirt 7 months ago:
Image If you see two Batmen kissing, I’ve got good news for you.
- Comment on passing through 7 months ago:
This makes more sense than my interpretation. I thought it was saying we survived the end times and Jesus was returning as his second coming.
Current evidence suggests we’re only at the beginning of Armageddon.
- Comment on EXCLUSIVE - Nintendo Switch 2 Will Have a 3-Phase Launch Plan For Its Games 8 months ago:
This is all the same point.
I agree with you, but they also continue to release more interesting and innovative games than most every other first party studio.
- Comment on EXCLUSIVE - Nintendo Switch 2 Will Have a 3-Phase Launch Plan For Its Games 8 months ago:
Why?
- Comment on Fucking hell 8 months ago:
I’m 43 years old and this is the first time I’ve seen an explanation of these numbers. Thank you!
- Comment on Anon discovers real life 9 months ago:
- Comment on Car diagram 10 months ago:
- Comment on ADL defends Nazi salute 10 months ago:
- Comment on Dear Americans, be prepare to get screwed! 1 year ago:
Not just Chinese goods, but Chinese components. That cost will be passed on to the consumer. There are A LOT of things that aren’t made at all in the US. If you thought cost of living was high under Biden…
